In this moving documentary, the discovery of records from WWII sparks a family’s quest for answers as two brothers separated as babies reunite with each other and their elderly mother, who hid more from them than just each other.Izak Szewelwicz was born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp...

An intimate, and yet unfathomable, love story about two young people in Tel Aviv. Tom's eating disorder and desire to disappear forever have confined her to an institution. Neil, himself mentally unstable, roams the streets with a tuba, under the mistaken impression that he will leave in a few da...

Five penniless citizens set on a crusade against the most powerful figures of the financial system In Israel – and win.

After his girlfriend is issued with an illegal repossession order, attorney Barak Cohen launches a public campaign against the heads of Israel’s banking industry.That was the b...

Celebrate Sukkot with WHERE LIFE BEGINS, a stunning and emotional romantic drama set against the lush backdrop of the annual Etrog (Citron) harvest in southern Italy, featuring Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick 2, A Haunting in Venice) and rising French actress Lou de Laâge (Coup de Chan...

At 20, Viv (Shaina Silver-Baird) was a promising young singer. At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother's basement. But when this self proclaimed "bad Jew" lands ass-backwards into a job as a Cantor at her family's synagogue, she’s thrown into a wild ride of illicit aff...

This short documentary is an intimate look at the everyday moments in a Tel Aviv café in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack. The film captures the strength of ordinary people during a time of profound adversity and highlights the importance of routine in allowing people to maintain...

Moran Rosenblatt ("Fauda") and John Carroll Lynch ("Fargo") star in KISS ME KOSHER, a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women - one of whom falls for a German woman and the other a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don’t fit but...

“Little Victories” is the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catchball team, and of “Coach Moodie”, a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different net. Mo...

Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for this fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metter...

A group of Czech Jewish teenagers sets out on a journey to the North. Without their parents to look after them, they must rely on each other. That’s how their great adventure starts. They spend four years in Denmark, an oasis in the midst of raging WWII. More than seventy years later, they are re...

A playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre, THE FILM CRITIC follows Victor Tellez, a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who prefers to think in French and eschews romantic clichés…until he finds himself living one. Riddled with ennui and the maladie du cinema, Tellez drifts from screenin...

In 2007 Livi, a photography student, moves into an empty building in downtown Haifa. Just before her loneliness urges her to leave, Shahar, Zvi, Iddo and Talia move into that very building – young artists themselves. The friendship ignites in an instant and when Zvi can’t pay his rent, they decid...

Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell, one of Sweden’s most acclaimed filmmakers, directs the biopic The Last Sentence. Set against the backdrop of WWII, The Last Sentence is based on the life of crusading journalist Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief of one of Sweden’s leading newspapers, highligh...

After becoming the sole heir of a 700-year old of a dynasty of Christian tattoo artists from the Old City of Jerusalem who has tattooed pilgrims for hundreds of years, Wassim Razzouk sets out to complete the family’s collection of historic wooden stencils before they are lost forever. On his jour...

Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when he discovers a Nazi tattoo on his chest, Simone a...

“Saving Dror” is centered around a first-person testimony from Kibbutz Be’eri member Sagi Shifroni who endured the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel’s southern border. Shifroni’s Kibbutz Be’eri was at the epicenter of the October 7 attack, with over 100 of its members killed and 30 kidnapped by Hamas on t...

Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged...

In Emmanuel Finkiel’s haunting adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi- autobiographical novel, The War: A Memoir, the famed author (Mélanie Thierry) recounts an emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against a backdrop of wartime intrigue. It’s 1944 Nazi-occupied France, and Mar...

In acclaimed filmmaker Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel, Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski, Happy End), flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he del...

It is the summer of 1978, a month to go until the Camp David peace accords, but Michal is not worried by world affairs. Her 7-year old daughter Maya has yet to learn how to read and write and her teacher wants to hold her back a year. Michal rises to the occasion and vows that by the end of the s...

From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes Ida, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past.

18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska)...

A fascinating little-known historical tale is stirringly recounted in AIR BORN, an inspiring documentary that brings the story of the children who grew up in Israeli air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s. In a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where...

Taking the best from La Vie En Rose and Amelie, renowned comic book artist Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino).

Born Lucien Ginsburg t...

Whether you witnessed it live, learnt about it or never even heard of the Munich Massacre at all - this event changed your life. September 5th 1972, the tenth day of the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes' quarters. The world watched live...

An Israeli woman (Ronit Elkabetz) seeking to finalize a divorce (gett) from her estranged husband finds herself effectively put on trial by her country’s religious marriage laws, in this powerhouse courtroom drama from sibling directors Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz.

In Israel, there is neither civ...

Raya and Victor have built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film voice actors. As the USSR collapses, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent themselves to find new jobs — and new lives. A charming comedy about disrupting old dynamics, starting anew, and rediscov...

The film portrays the renowned illustrator David Polonsky, during his work on a new children’s book. Along with his masterpieces: “Waltz with Bashir” (Winner of the Golden Globe) “The Congress” (Winner of the European Film Awards) and “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” (published all ov...

A broken string, fractured echo chamber, rusting valves. One brilliant conductor, three gifted composers, and 100 musicians meet for four days of rehearsals. They speak different languages. Their instruments are broken. An orchestra of professional and amateur musicians, young and old, prepare, a...

The story of a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely after their father finally decides to tell his family that he's a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, but just as it seems that life is back ...

Erez (Omer Perelman Striks, The New Black), a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, arrives at a godforsaken training camp held in a boarding school, where the one to win the competition gets a ticket to the Olympics. There he meets the beautiful and talented Nevo, who awakens subconscious d...

A young Russian Jewish immigrant in Brighton Beach, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors, two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss — and explores th...

Three siblings return to their family home in Los Angeles to reconcile over their mother's untimely death, but find themselves torn between mourning and greed.

Between meeting with the Rabbi, funeral preparations, and sitting Shiva, Kate (Jennifer Levinson) has no time to process Mom’s absence. ...

The Yiddish Book Center presents "Who Will Remain?", a new feature documentary produced by The Wexler Oral History Project! | Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life...

Samuel and Isaac are South Sudanese teenage refugees who grew up in Israel but were deported. They now live in Uganda, and dream of making their musical talent known to the world. Amir, an Israeli musician, arrives to help them produce their music and put on an unforgettable show, within their co...

Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman’s THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies. In the style of a tense psychological thriller, this extraordinary documentary recounts the true...

Over seven decades ago, the members of the People's Council sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel. Every word and comma led to hours of debate. The declaration was signed, the State established, but the debate still rages. The grandchildren of the signers of the...

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and su...

A ChaiFlicks Exclusive Premiere! | In a relentless pursuit of justice, lawyer Lisa Stern unearths a haunting truth: Holocaust victims, denied even in death, were systematically betrayed by unpaid life insurance claims, while major European Insurance companies were complicit with Hitler and the Na...

Co-Starring Rutger Hauer! | This lavish romantic drama charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who ...

Winner of 4 Israeli Academy Awards, HERE WE ARE is a heartwarming father-son story from acclaimed director Nir Bergman (creator of the original "In Treatment").

Aharon (Shai Avivi, "Losing Alice", "One Week and a Day") has devoted his life to raising his son Uri (Noam Imber). They live together ...

How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with ...

Reut (Ania Bukstein, A Quiet Heart, Game of Thrones), a young prosecutor, takes over a sexual assault case based on the sole testimony of Efrat - a rebellious yet fragile victim, who lives with her wild female partner. Reut is reluctant, but as the trial progresses and Efrat collapses, Reut learn...

The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed the Minkowski family; philanthropists and members of Warsaw's elite society before the war. A work opportunity brings French opera conductor Marc Minkowski to the former home of his great-grandparents where he enlists the aid of Polish historians and descendants...

Notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel's first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was chosen to be the hangman. This film reveals a complex portrait of a character who repeatedly finds hi...

In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto's chief accountant Genewein. The colorful world in the slides is set against vivid recollections of Arnold Mostowicz - a man who was a Jewi...

When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all of its possessions. THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO reveals the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for near...

In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut and is taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is ten-year-old Fahed, whose father obsessively tends to his prized, but sickly olive tree, refusing to replant i...

Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox's moving and empathetic sequel to his 2002 classic "Yossi & Jagger" finds Yossi (Ohad Knoller, SRUGIM) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his oth...

90-year-old Frau Stern is in remarkable shape for a woman her age. Her physical health is excellent, her daughter and granddaughter are doting on her, her hairdresser supplies her with recreational drugs and she is surrounded by friends who are still in their 20s. But the Holocaust survivor from ...

A thrilling cinematic journey from Israel to Baghdad in search of a missing father and a lost community. A young journalist from Baghdad sets out to write about Linda Abdul Aziz, who escaped from Iraq to Israel in the early 1970's, and about her father, who was kidnapped and disappeared and his f...

A charming documentary that showcases the vibrant wisdom and life lessons of a dozen diverse individuals between the ages of 90- to 99-years-old. Through the touching and open stories shared by the "cast" of "The 90s Club" (including beloved actor Dick Van Dyke, Holocaust survivor Art Gelbart, an...

Award-winning filmmaker Michal Vinik (Valeria Is Getting Married, Working Woman) tells the story of 17-year-old Naama, who spends most of her free time drinking and partying in the hopes of escaping from her parents' constant bickering, worsened by the recent disappearance of her AWOL soldier sis...

According to the Jewish religion, which also defines the national law in Israel, only the man has the power to grant a divorce. Women find themselves chained to their husbands against their will, even if the separation is mutual. The film follows several such ‘chained’ women in Israel together wi...

Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work? What about the in-laws? How to raise the kids? For 30 years, Catholics and Jews in Chicago have found that the answers don't have to be so hard - boundaries can be crossed - divisions healed. And the kids? We follow fiv...

Parisian drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance with Jeanne (Adèle Haenel, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire") a past lover, a lifelong friendship and the addiction of his brother (actor/fil...

ChaiFlicks is proud to exclusively premiere the new 25th anniversary restoration of Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum's seminal film "A LIFE APART: Hasidism in America", available this Saturday, December 23rd!

Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker, this groundbreaking documentary was...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest Christian site, is shared by six denominations fighting each other for every square meter. Two Muslim families, guardians of the entrance key to the church, argue who is the true key custodian. Jonny, an Israeli police officer in charge, ...

Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been a...

Follow four agriculturalists in mythological Moshav Nahalal for a year as they work and complete a cycle of crops. ADAMA ("Farmers") introduces us to the Nahalal elders, who work until their dying day as they deal with inter-personal conflicts and the conflicts between man and land.

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MY NAME IS SARA tells the true life story of Sara Goralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is ...